Why do you trouble yourself about it? And, Charles, if you were a master, would you let your servants break and destroy with impunity?
CHARLES.
I do not believe there are any servants who break things on purpose. It is always by accident, and an accident should be excused.
EDWARD.
It is pure good-nature certainly. A careless servant will then with you never do wrong. But my aunt, I think, ought to know what is broken.
CHARLES.
I intend to tell her; and to ask her to forgive the person who did it through thoughtlessness.
EDWARD.
And the person was one of the servants, who was it?
CHARLES.